Bring me the head of Diego Garcia...and the Mayor of Addu Atoll too!

[Chickenboy]

ORIGINAL: Mynok

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

The Kates from the "Crouching Crane" scored 1 hit each on 2 different BB's and one CL in drydock with the top secret "jumping porpoise" torpedo.

[:D] Maybe someone forgot to drain the drydocks.

Then they wouldn't be drydocks then, would they? I guess I'd never heard reference to 'wetdocks', 'drainingdocks' or 'dampdocks', come to think of it.

[sprior]

The buffer's party on the Haruna aren't too chuffed after the crabs splash oggin all over their nice new paintwork.

Meanwhile, back at Honkers the cricket square gets all churned up. Now we're really quite cross.

[sprior]

Haruna off Kota Baru

[BrucePowers]

She is quite close to shore[:D]

[witpqs]

ORIGINAL: BrucePowers

She is quite close to shore[:D]

And look at the slick surrounding her - she's pumping out her bilges! What an insult!

[sprior]

Must be the stokers cleaning the bilges for Captain's Rounds

[Cap Mandrake]

..

[BrucePowers]

Look at those decorative water fountains fore and aft of the ship. They must be very peaceful looking from the retiremnet community[:D]

[Cap Mandrake]

*****Kota Baru Shores sales office, Kota Baru, Malaya, Dec 9, 1941****

Perky young Malay saleswoman with perky bosoms: Now, if you will follow me, I will show you the workout room and clubhouse which can be reserved for functions. <the group leaves the sales office, crossing an outdoor walkway>

One half of potential client couple, decidedly non-perky bososms: Oh, look dear, the cruise ships stop here.

[BrucePowers]

One half of potential client couple, decidedly non-perky bososms: Oh look they let their passengers ashore with those boats with ramps in front right on the beach.

[Grollub]

ORIGINAL: sprior

The buffer's party on the Haruna aren't too chuffed after the crabs splash oggin all over their nice new paintwork.

Meanwhile, back at Honkers the cricket square gets all churned up. Now we're really quite cross.

How unsporting! [:'(]

[sprior]

The Japanese entering Honkers...

[sprior]

10/12/41

The AVG give the Japanese a nasty surprise over Rangoon:

Japanese aircraft
Ki-21-IIa Sally x 23
Ki-43-Ib Oscar x 25



Allied aircraft
H81-A3 x 24


Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-21-IIa Sally: 5 destroyed, 8 damaged
Ki-43-Ib Oscar: 4 destroyed

The crabs splash lots of oggin over the Kongo (just for a change).

[Cap Mandrake]

I looked up "crabs" in the Urban Dictionary. Hmmmm..none seem right in context. There are three definitions listed:

1) Something you get from sleeping with the Olsen twins. (There are multiple variations on this involving some type unwelcome arthropod)

2) A free souvenir from Tijuana.

3) A derogatory remark used to disrespect the LA street gang Crips. In context with the crip handsign when both hands are throwing up crip they look like crab pinchers.

I think it is possible number 1 is something the pongos might get. Tijuana is a long way from Malaya and I don't think the Crips existed in 1941, or, if they did, they were wearing zoot suits and the chain thingy would get caught up in their weapons.



PS> Couldn't find "oggin" either.

[Grollub]

I'm glad that my coffee brewer hadn't finished doing its job before I landed in this thread [:D]

[Cap Mandrake]

*****Bridge of SS Montanes, a commercial vessel of Fillipino registry, now nationalized by the Govt. of the Philippines, 160 SSE of Luzon, 09:20, dec. 9, 1941******

Capt. Co-casquejo has orders to get his vessel safely to Australia by whatever route he deems best, avoiding contact with the enemy, if possible. He has been warned the greatest risk are the Japanese escort carriers, which have not been spotted, but are assumed to be nearby because that is what all the Japanese players do. The Capt. is the kind who like to jump off roofs and clib trees with flimsy branches when he was a child. He once purposely destroyed a beehive to see if he could outrun the bees. He couldn't, but it made for a good story. The ship has no fixed weapons but they were outfitted with a M1917 Browning machine gun surrounded by sandbags near the bow. As the ship emerges from mist, there is a cry from the lookout, "enemy cruisers and carriers our port bow!"


Capt. Co-casquejo: <quickly decides the report is correct, perhaps 20,000 yds bearing 170. He will have to close range to bring the M1917 within range. As his deck is "lightly" armored, he will be vulnerable to plunging fire as he closes, just like Hood. Truth be told everything is "lightly" armored but that is the kind of thing a man like the Captain really doesn't think about.>

Make course 170! All ahead flank. BATTLE STATIONS! <quietly> Time to knock over a bee hive.

[whippleofd]

crabs

Also means: Civilians running around bitching

Whipple

[Chickenboy]

Captain Mandrake,

I must say, old chap, that I'm enjoying this AAR very much. Any chance that the non-American side of this AAR will be in English?

Cheerio.

Chickenboy

[Mynok]

No sir....sprior's going jackspeak all the way.

[Onime No Kyo]

ORIGINAL: Mynok


No sir....sprior's going jackspeak all the way.

That comforting. I thought he was just very bad at typing.

Incidentally, I've been trying to pick up on this Mayor of Addu Atoll reference, and have failed completely.